Researcher profiles and identifiers

Scopus is a bibliographic database which provides citation metrics for publications and authors. A unique number, or author identifier, is automatically created for each author with documents indexed in Scopus.

This makes it possible to:

• Distinguish between authors with very common names like Smith or Wang,
• Group together documents published by the same author whose name may have changed over time or may be cited in a number of different ways, for example, one document might use: Clarke, Adrienne Elizabeth, while others may use Clarke, A. E. or Clarke, A.

If you have publications indexed in Scopus, it is important to check:

• You have been assigned a single Scopus Author Identifier.
• All your scholarly works have been assigned your Author ID.
• Your Scopus author profile details are correct.

This will ensure that your:

• Scholarly works are easy to find,
• Citation metrics in Scopus, such as your total citation count and h-index, are correct, and
• List of scholarly works in Scopus, and possibly used on other websites via feeds, is complete.

Link your Scopus Author Identifier to your ORCID to further disambiguate your research from others, especially if you have a common name or have published under a number of variations of your name.

If your profile is incorrect, or there are several profiles attached to your name contact the Research Outputs team.